Hi everyone!

I just wanted to share a small template library and supporting program I wrote using Lua (specifically wrote against LuaJIT and Lua5.1).

I haven't found any existing template engine that really fit my needs. The main one I saw was Jinja2, but it required pulling in Python, which on a lot of environments was a bit more of an ask than I really wanted to deal with (especially in enterprise environments). Many others I've tried over the years seem not to throw errors when a variable is referenced, but not defined, or at least the ones I could get testing with in about 15 minutes.

Can't promise it's perfect, but it replaced my need to create a templated text document for my RPG character that I had written in M4, and I have had a lot of instances where I wanted an easy-to-use templating engine for configurations.